Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Unit 1 Lesson 1: How do you locate places on Earth?

Book: Our California, History-Social Science for California
Author: William E. White, Ph.D.
U-$0.33-B-0.006065-BE-55
Unit: 1, The Land of California
Lesson: 1, How do you locate places on Earth?
Page: 3-6

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Questions
1. What are main or cardinal directions?
2. What is a symbol that shows the main directions on a map?
3. What is the name of the imaginary lines that run east-west around Earth?
4. What is the name of the imaginary lines that run north-south around Earth?
5. What do latitude and longitude lines form?
6. What are measured in degrees?
7. What do you call the exact or nearly exact location of a place on Earth?
8. What is the equator?
9. The equator is the starting point for measuring degrees of latitude.  True or False
10. What is the prime meridian?

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